Federal report on school software due this month

The federal government’s first evaluation of school software, nearly a year overdue, is due out at the end of the month. The U.S. Department of Education $10 million report is based on studies conducted during the 2003-04 school year and some critics say the data will be so old that it won’t be meaningful. The results will be released in aggregate, meaning school leaders won’t have any meaningful information to help them understand which specific products work and which don’t. Read about this and another federal report on the effectiveness of technology in the classroom at eSchool News online.